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Techn0Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:31 PM Original message |
Senate Jobs Bill Skips Unemployment Benefits Extension |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:32 PM Response to Original message |
1. Nothing surprises me anymore. n/t |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
2. Why am I not surprised? |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 03:36 PM Response to Reply #2 |
42. Now, now -- they're just representing their true constituency. |
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tonysam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
3. Time to let these "Democrats" know how we feel. n/t |
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Nite Owl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. They know |
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dotymed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-27-10 12:29 PM Response to Reply #3 |
72. Is this, needing UI extensions, |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
4. I just got my Federal unemployment extention. |
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endless october (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
5. i think it's way past time to try "trickle up" instead. |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
6. I'm having a hell of a time getting my regular benefits, for get extensions |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
7. What the fuck! We do still have a majority in the Senate right? Why the |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:41 PM Response to Reply #7 |
17. because they agree with the pukes evidently |
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FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:51 PM Response to Reply #7 |
22. WE do not have any representation in the Senate |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-27-10 11:09 AM Response to Reply #22 |
65. That is a very accurate assessment of the Democratic party. |
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mzmolly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
8. The tax credits are specifically geared toward hiring. It's not trickle down theory |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-27-10 04:46 AM Response to Reply #8 |
62. We're still using tax money to help corporations get richer. Providing a federal job would be less |
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Abq_Sarah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 07:17 PM Response to Reply #8 |
85. They're not going to spur employment |
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tonysam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
9. Further down the article it says this |
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mzmolly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:38 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Or it may be included |
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tonysam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:39 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Exactly. The two houses will likely reconcile any bill anyway. |
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Techn0Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:57 PM Response to Reply #15 |
26. THe two Houses will likely reconcile any bill anyway ???? |
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tonysam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 03:00 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. You were the poster, as I recall, who didn't think |
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Techn0Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:41 PM Response to Reply #9 |
18. The audacity of hope..... |
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tonysam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 03:06 PM Response to Reply #18 |
35. I want to know why you are making shit up |
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Techn0Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 03:17 PM Response to Reply #35 |
39. We went through this last time and I am not going to do it again.... |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 04:09 PM Response to Reply #39 |
46. "All extensions expire in one month" This is the first I've heard of this. |
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Techn0Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 04:35 PM Response to Reply #46 |
49. This has been news since early October - See my post further down entitled "No problemo".... |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
11. How often can the people get betrayed by these politicians |
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TheWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 05:41 AM Response to Reply #11 |
82. Many of them can't. |
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JackintheGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
13. Gosh, as I just read in Newsweek |
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dgibby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:47 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. Who wrote that? Andre Bauer? nt |
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fasttense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-27-10 09:11 AM Response to Reply #13 |
64. Just like in South Carolina, you can't feed those people because they will breed. |
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How_Sad_We_R_2Day (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-27-10 11:55 PM Response to Reply #64 |
79. Idiocracy |
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liberation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-27-10 12:27 PM Response to Reply #13 |
71. Basically this is what the GOP and the Blue Dogs (aren't they the same really?) are saying: |
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How_Sad_We_R_2Day (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-27-10 11:42 PM Response to Reply #13 |
78. For Real The Government is Subsidizing Laziness??? |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
14. They are currently at 99-weeks, I believe, which is far and away the longest ever. |
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Techn0Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:45 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. All extensions EXPIRE in one month.... |
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tonysam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 03:01 PM Response to Reply #20 |
29. Not true. Not true. Please don't spread misinformation. |
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Earth_First (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 03:05 PM Response to Reply #29 |
34. Care to explain... |
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Techn0Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 03:13 PM Response to Reply #29 |
38. All extensions expire in one month is true. |
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Tiberius (798 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-27-10 11:40 AM Response to Reply #38 |
66. boy this is confusing. |
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tonysam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 03:02 PM Response to Reply #14 |
30. Delete |
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tonysam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 03:02 PM Response to Reply #14 |
31. Correct, and they need to be extended more as unemployment isn't going down one damned bit. |
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fadedrose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
16. These people are looking for jobs -applying for jobs that many are seeking |
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SlingBlade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
19. Gee, Imagine That |
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bahrbearian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
23. I've been denied my Fed extenstion, this sucks |
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Techn0Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 03:50 PM Response to Reply #23 |
44. It's a stupid and wasteful system. |
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bahrbearian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 03:57 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. The sooner they take away our benefits the sooner they don't have to count us. |
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DesertDiamond (838 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-27-10 03:44 PM Response to Reply #23 |
77. ??? I know someone else who was denied because he *hadn't* worked last year |
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Iowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
24. Today's Democratic party is a party of war and corporate welfare... |
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Little Star (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
25. Well, maybe...... |
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Faux pas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
28. this is what I don't get, if we're all dead or broke who's going |
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Techn0Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 03:08 PM Response to Reply #28 |
36. The idea is not to kill us .... |
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Faux pas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-27-10 01:59 AM Response to Reply #36 |
61. Ok, now I get it. The united corporate states of amerika is an ass, |
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How_Sad_We_R_2Day (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 12:07 AM Response to Reply #28 |
80. Applause |
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Faux pas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 04:59 AM Response to Reply #80 |
81. LOL the interwebs and satellite tv will be the last things I |
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Purveyor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
32. It could be a long, hot summer standing in those soup lines, indeed! eom |
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uberblonde (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 03:05 PM Response to Original message |
33. That doesn't mean they won't pass them. |
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Techn0Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 03:11 PM Response to Reply #33 |
37. No it doesn't mean that they won't pass them.... |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
40. Does anyone else remember the L.A. riots? |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 03:46 PM Response to Reply #40 |
43. Yes, as a matter of fact, I do. I recall GHWB signing $10B loan guarantees for Israel DAYS after |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 08:20 PM Response to Reply #43 |
54. I don't know. Might have happened about the same time. |
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 11:26 PM Response to Reply #40 |
57. I certainly remember..and i as well had a young child, and was terrified! |
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Oerdin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
41. Horrible. |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
47. I cannot find anywhere in the article that mentions. . . |
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Techn0Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 04:34 PM Response to Reply #47 |
48. No Problemo .... |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 06:32 PM Response to Reply #48 |
52. Thanks n/t |
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lark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 05:13 PM Response to Original message |
50. How do I feel? |
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Orangepeel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
51. tax breaks for "small businesses that hire new employees" is what a jobs bill should be |
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 11:33 PM Response to Reply #51 |
58. heck most of the small businesses where I live ( FLA) have gone out of business ... |
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Jefferson23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
53. Lovely, just lovely, that's how I feel about this. |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
55. Mean while doubling H1 and L1 visas. |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-27-10 12:46 AM Response to Reply #55 |
59. Yeah...there's no one here that can do the work. |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-27-10 01:04 AM Response to Reply #59 |
60. but OHIOCHICK |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 10:37 PM Response to Original message |
56. This |
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1776Forever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-27-10 08:38 AM Response to Original message |
63. Just another reason to ask - "Is it time for a new party?" - Seems the answer is YES! |
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GinaMaria (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-27-10 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
67. Well surprise, surprise, surprise |
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GinaMaria (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-27-10 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
68. unemployment benefits and food stamps |
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change_notfinetuning (750 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-27-10 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
69. And yet, unemployment compensation is subject to federal income tax. It's a |
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butterfly77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-27-10 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
70. Chamber of Commerce.. |
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inna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-27-10 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
73. Wow. KR |
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chitown606 (12 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-27-10 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
74. Mad as hell |
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varelse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-27-10 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
75. Does it even matter anymore? |
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DesertDiamond (838 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-27-10 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
76. WTF??? I am trying to rent out a10 x 10 bedroom in my house... |
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TeeYiYi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-29-10 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
83. Anything new on this subject?... |
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TeeYiYi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-29-10 04:32 PM Response to Reply #83 |
84. I found this from today... |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 07:25 PM Response to Reply #84 |
86. thanks for the updates and the kicking this. |
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pipoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 07:37 PM Response to Original message |
87. We don't need any of that shit |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 10:12 PM Response to Original message |
88. Wow -- what a betrayal of American labor -- !!! Absolutely disgusting . . .!!! |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 11:09 PM Response to Original message |
89. This is just beyond disgusting. |
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